CHAPTER XXVI. 



FIRST SHOW AT BERWICK, 1841, AND SIXTH SHOW 

 AT EDINBURGH, 1842. 



In 1 84 1 the Society held their show at Berwick, the com- 

 petition opening on Thursday the 30th September. The 

 meeting took place on the Magdalene Fields, the property 

 of the Earl of Lisburn. When the Society held its show 

 on the Borders at Kelso, it had offered high inducements 

 to breeders of Shorthorns to exhibit. On this occasion 

 it fixed the first premium for bulls at a figure higher than 

 it had yet or has since offered. The first prize for bulls 

 calved after first January 1837 was one hundred sovereigns. 

 The second prize was fixed at thirty sovereigns ; while for 

 yearling bulls there was a prize of twenty sovereigns. It 

 was supposed that the high premiums offered would call 

 forth an exhibition of the best animals of the breed. In 

 some respects the expectation was not disappointed. The 

 show was generally of a very excellent character as 

 regards quality of stock. Never had there been so good 

 an exhibition in Scotland, while Englishmen declared 

 there never had been one so good in England. It was 

 affirmed, indeed, that among the nine hundred and sixty- 

 two head of live stock, not one bad animal was to be 

 found. This is the first show at which we have authenti- 

 cated pedigrees of the Shorthorns exhibited. Twenty-three 

 animals were entered in the aged bull class. Of these 

 eleven were from England. Of the other twelve, nine were 

 from Berwickshire, two from Mid-Lothian, and one from 

 the Buchan district of Aberdeenshire. 



Of the exhibitors of bulls from England six were from 

 Northumberland, viz. (i) Nicholas Burnett, Black Hedley, 

 who showed Cleveland Lad 2nd 3408, bred by Mr Bates of 

 Kirkleavington ; (2) Adam Calder, Shotton, who showed a 

 two-year-old bred by John Thompson, Paston, got by 



